Brendon Hartley has taken Bahrain's hypercar pole for Toyota, while Porsche has claimed the last pole in GTE Pro WEC
The New Zealander took his second pole of the year after the Le Mans 24 Hours in June with a 1m46.800s lap aboard the #8 Toyota GR010 to knock Peugeot’s Paul di Resta off the top spot in qualifying by eight tenths.
The Toyota drivers and the Alpine trio of Nicolas Lapierre, Matthieu Vaxivierre and Andre Negrao were tied on 121 points prior to qualifying. Norman Nato grabbed pole in LMP2 right at the end of the 10-minute prototype qualifying session for the Realteam by WRT squad. The Portuguese improved on this second run to a 1m50.445s to go quicker than Stevens, but lost the time to a track limits infraction.Porsche driver Gianmaria Bruni took the last ever pole position in GTE Pro.
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